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TIL Earlier this year Indonesian fishermen found what they believed to be an angel from Indonesian mythology that had fallen from the sky. Police investigations found it to be a sex doll.

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nxP9 TIL Pixar’s animation department originally created water that was “too real” when producing “Finding Nemo”
1LBr TIL of Bill Baird, who was convicted as a felon in 1967 for giving a speech to 1,500 college students about birth control and then handing out one package of condoms and one of contraceptive foam. His actions would not be legal until 1972.
95dG TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.
8174 TIL that during the Rwanda Genocide, Hotel Manager Paul Rusesabagina hid 1,268 refugees in his hotel, none of which were hurt or killed.
xw85 TIL that Elon Musk wanted the first three Tesla models to spell S-E-X but settled with “S3X” since Ford owns the trademark to “Model E”. After the Model Y is released, the four models will spell “S3XY”.